Accounts on social media circulated a report claiming that "Liwa Ariqa", a local armed group in Suwayda, repelled an advance by tribal forces and "General Security" on the village of Ariqa in the Suwayda countryside, and that, according to the claim, the "Liwa Ariqa" group liberated the village of Wuqum after repelling the advance.
The Kashaf team verified the field details of the incident, and the team’s correspondent in Suwayda explained that local armed groups attacked Bedouin and clashed with gunmen among them in the village of Wuqum, which was empty of any groups belonging to Syrian Internal Security or the Syrian Ministry of Defence.
Why is the report misleading?
False attribution: The claim attributed the attack to Syrian government forces in the Ariqa area of the Suwayda countryside, while the Kashaf correspondent confirmed that the attack came from local armed groups in Suwayda targeting Bedouin in the village of Wuqum, which was empty of any forces belonging to Internal Security or the Ministry of Defence.
